Garment



J. W. BURGESS.

GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED IAN. I9. 1920.

1,410,648. Patented Mar. 28,1922.

JOHN "W. BURGESS, OF KANSAS CITY, MESSOUBI.

GARMENT.

Application filed January 19, 1920.

To (ZZZ Li /10m it may concern:

Be it known that I, Join; il BURonss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kansas (:itv, in the county ot Jackson and State of lhssouri, have invented a new and useful Garment, of which the following is a specification.

The device formin the subjectmatter of this application a garnient, and the invention aims to provide a garment embodying an ulster closed or open in the back, a acket with or without trousers, a pair of trousers with or without a belt, a skirt with or without a belt, an apron with a belt, and a acket having an apron.

it is within the province of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices oi that tpe to which the invention appertains.

Witl the above and other objects in view, the invention con ists in the novel conuction and arrangement 0t parts hereinatter des :ibed, claimed, and shown in the drawings. it being understood that, within the scope or" what is claimed, a garment maker or bushelman may make changes without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The garment is shown in the drawings in a single figure, laid fiat, parts thereof being separated.

1l1e garment forming the subject matter of this application includes a jacket 1 provided with sleeves 2, over which cutts 3 may be slipped, the cuffs extending approximately to the elbows. Buttons 4 are mounted on the lower ends of the sleeves2 and cooperate with button holes 5 in the cuits 3, the upper ends of the cufis 3 being provided with resilient bands 6 adapted to hold the upper ends of the ends in place on the arms of the wearer. The cuffs 3 may be employed when added warmth is desired, or when the wearer is engaged in dirty work, it being obvious that the cuffs 3 may be removed readily for washing.

One of the longitudinal edges of the jacket 1 is sup-plied with buttons 7 adapted to cooperate with button holes 8 on the other longitudinal edge of the jacket. Adjacent to its lower edge, the jacket 1 is supplied with loops 9.

The invention comprises a pair of flaps 10, the inner edges of which may be connected by stitching or otherwise, as shown at 11, adjacent to the upper portions of the Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1922..

Serial No. 352,275.

ilaps. One of the flaps 10 is provided, ad- ;acent to its outer edge, with button holes '7 adapted to cooperate with buttons 18 located upon the other flap, adjacent to the er edge thereof. One flap 10 is provided upon its inner edge with button holes adapted to cooperate with buttons 20 located on the other flap, near to the inner e 'c thereof. In the upper edges of the t ps 10. button holes 12 are fashioned, the s nic being adapted to coact with buttons located on the jacket 1 near to the lower thereof. Alongtheir upper edges, the flaps 10 are equipped with loops 15 through which a belt 16 may be passed. 1

1n the foregoing; description. buttons and button holes have been alluded to trequentlv. but it is to be understood that any equivalent for buttons and button holes may A person skilled in the making 1 garments will. appreciate the fact that, if desired, separable snap fasteners or the like, y l. sed, wherever desired, in the place i be supposed that the flaps 10 are connected by the buttons 14 to the lower edge of the jacket 1 and that the buttons 20 are engaged with the button holes 19. Then. the garment may be buttoned up along the front, by means of the buttons and the button holes 8. and through the trumentalit-y oi"? the buttons 18 and the ion holes 17. Under such circumstances, the garment will constitute an ulster, closed in the back. The but-tons 20 may be disengaged from the button holes 19, whereupon the garment will appear as an ulster open or slit upwardly in the back.

The buttons 20 be engaged with the button holes 17, the buttons 18 being engaged with the button holes 19, and the flaps 10 remaining assembled with the jacket 1. Then the garment takes the form of a jacket provided with a pair of trousers. If the flaps 10 are detached from the buttons 14, then the jacket may be used alone, without the trousers formed by the flaps 10 and, of course. the trousers, formed as above described, may be employed without the jacket 1. The belt 16 may be used or omitted, as desired, in connection with the trousers. If the belt 16 is used in connection with the loops 9 of the jacket 1, the jacket may be belted in at the waist.

The flaps 10 may be detached from the jacket 1, the buttons 20 being engaged with the button holes 19, and the buttons 18 being engaged with the button holes 17. Then, the flaps i constitute a skirt.

The flaps may be detached from the jacket 1, the buttons 20 being engaged with the button holes 19. Then there is provided an apron, which may be held on the body' of the wearer by the belt 18. The

a ron ma be em 10 ed either in connecingeffective for releasably connecting the rear edge of each flap with the front edge of the same flap whereby the flaps Will form a pair of breeches forthe jacket; separable fastening elements connecting the upper edges of the flaps to the jacket; loops on the flaps adjacent to the upper edges of the flaps; and a belt received in the loops, the belt covering the fastening elements and forming a constricting means for the garment when the flaps are assembled with the jacket, the belt constituting a supporting means for the flaps alone, when the flaps are separates from the jacket, thereby enabling-the flaps to be employed as an apron.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two 'WltHGSSQS.

JOHN W. BURGESS. Witnesses Err-Inn STEPHENSON, CLYDE I. POULTER. 

